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Gecko's toe falling off and bleeding

BatteryAcid Jan 06, 2008 02:30 PM

For the past couple of weeks, one of my oldest leopard gecko, Sunny's, fingers had gone from looking like it was raw almost with a layer of skin missing, to scabbed up, and now, after shedding today, it's broken off and is hanging on by some skin and bleeding heavier than usual for him. We've stuck his foot in corn starch to hopefully stop or at least slow the bleeding for now, and we've been told that more humidity can help stop bleeding (the air is quite dry here this time of year), but other than that and potentially attempting to book an appointment with a small reptile vet that won't fit us in for a week and wants a ridiculous amount of money up front, we don't know what to do.

Along with that, he's had areas of skin look like they've been scraped and usually end up scabbing over and bleeding every now and then, right now he has one above his right bottom leg that's so deep you can see some of his bone. I have no idea what would be the cause of this, so if anybody knows, please help.
Photo of his finger

Replies (1)

havingstl Jan 07, 2008 11:49 PM

wow it looks like you need some kind of moist hide for that gecko. it wont solve the problems you have immediately but it will prevent that stuff from happening again

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